{{Short description|Kannada poet}} {{Use Indian English|date=June 2017}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2017}} {{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see :Template:Infobox writer/doc --> | name = Gopalakrishna Adiga | image = G Adiga.jpg <!-- FAIR USE of G_kevempu.jpg: see image description page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:G_Adiga.jpg for rationale --> | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_date = {{birth year|1918}} | birth_place = Mogeri, South Canara, Madras Presidency, British India<br>(present-day Kundapura taluk, Udupi district, Karnataka, India) | death_date = {{death year and age|1992|1918}} | death_place = Bangalore, Karnataka | occupation = Poet, writer, professor | period = | genre = Fiction | subject = | movement = Navya | signature = | website = | relatives = Manu Raju (grandson)<br/>Sharat Raju (grandson) }}
'''Mogeri Gopalakrishna Adiga''' (18.2.1918–14.11.1992) was a modern Kannada poet. He is known by some commentators as the "pioneer of New style" poetry.<ref name="hindu">{{usurped|[https://web.archive.org/web/20090228045107/http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2002/09/26/stories/2002092600660200.htm http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2002/09/26/stories/2002092600660200.htm]}} The Hindu - 26 September 2002</ref>
==Biography== He was born in the coastal village of Mogeri, Udupi district, in Karnataka State. After primary education in Mogeri and Baindooru, he went to high school in Kundapur.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Gopalakrishna Adiga Biography - Biography of Gopalakrishna Adiga|url=https://www.poemhunter.com/gopalakrishna-adiga/biography/|access-date=2022-01-22|website=Poem Hunter|language=en-us}}</ref> As editor of ''Saakshi'' magazine he helped bring Kannada literature to the masses.<ref name="hin3">{{usurped|[https://web.archive.org/web/20070313181327/http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2004/10/04/stories/2004100411610300.htm Gopalakrishna Adiga remembered]}} The Hindu - 4 October 2004</ref>
Adiga's grandson is Manu Raju, Senior Political reporter for CNN.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.cnn.com/profiles/manu-raju | title=CNN Profiles - Manu Raju - Chief Congressional Correspondent | website=CNN }}</ref> Another grandson, Sharat Raju, is a film director in the US.
==Work== In the 1950s and 1960s Adiga was a teacher in Mysore.<ref name="hin2">[https://web.archive.org/web/20040823112054/http://www.hindu.com/mag/2004/04/25/stories/2004042500260300.htm The Mysore generation] ''The Hindu'' - 25 Apr 2004.</ref> From 1964 until 1968 he was the principal of Lal Bahadur College in Sagara, and from 1968 until 1971 he was Principal of Poorna Prajna College in Udupi.<ref name="bio">{{cite web|url=http://geocities.com/indian_poets/kannada.html |title=Indian Poets Writing In Kannada |access-date=2010-10-08 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091026144559/http://geocities.com/indian_poets/kannada.html |archive-date=26 October 2009 }} - Indian Poets</ref>
His style has been described {{By whom|date= February 2013}} as a response to the independence of India from British rule in 1947. The style called Navya was generally about the new times. Inspired by modern Western literature and Indian tradition, he set out to portray the "disillusionment and angst of the times".<ref name="bio" />
==Works== *''Bhavataranga'' - 1946 *''Anathey'' - 1954 (novel) *''Bhoomi Geetha'' - 1959 *''Mannina Vasane'' (book of essays) - 1966 *''Vardhamana'' - 1972 *''Idanna Bayasiralilla'' (poems) - 1975 *''Samagra Kavya'' (collection of poems) - 1976 *''[https://web.archive.org/web/20090612035606/http://www.sirinudi.org/Sakshi/sakshi.html] Sakshi'' (Magazine) - 1962
==Quotes==
*"ಇರುವುದೆಲ್ಲವ ಬಿಟ್ಟು ಇರದುದರೆಡೆಗೆ ತುಡಿವುದೆ ಜೀವನ?" (Iruvudellava bittu iradudaredege tudivude jeevana?)
Is life leaving everything we have and craving for things which we do not have?
*"ಮೌನ ತಬ್ಬಿತು ನೆಲವ" (mouna tabbitu nelava)<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20050216074048/http://www.caswath.com/about-quotes.htm QUOTES about Aswath]}} - C. Aswath</ref>
==See also== * Kannada language * Kannada literature * Kannada poetry * Gopalakrishna Bharathi
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